Price gouging is prohibited in 34 US states and Washington D.C. But two scholars ask whether that’s the way it should be.
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A new study looks at what happens when you get infected with two viruses at the same time.
Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
After 20 months, scientists find lab-dish brain cells matured at a similar rate to those of an actual infant.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
Discover the history of homemade sugar skulls, home altars, and fantastical spirit animals.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Artist Seán Doran recently created more than eight hours of high-definition video using images captured by Japan’s SELENE lunar orbiter.
For the first time, light that comes from behind a black hole has been spotted.
It’s 92 billion light-years wide after just 13.8 billion years. And that’s just fine. If there’s one rule that people know about how fast things can move, it’s that there’s a […]
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
In our common experience, you can’t get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn’t banned gain-of-function research.
With sodium-sensitive eyes, we’d see it every new Moon. With no detectable gases, the Moon appears to be atmosphere-free. The Moon as seen from a view above the majority of Earth’s […]
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
We haven’t discovered life beyond our Solar System yet, but we’re closer than ever before. Over the past 30 years, we’ve gone from zero exoplanets to thousands. With each new […]
Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]
Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?
The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
The act of observing doesn’t just determine a previously indeterminate state, but can destroy information, too. Imagine that you’re a scientist attempting to understand reality at a fundamental level. How […]
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.